Dust-pan attachment.



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DUST PAN ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2, 1909.

"924,059. Patented June 8,1909.

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CHARLES W. GROBE, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

DUST-PAN ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1909.

Application filed January 2, 1909. Serial No. 470,371.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. Gnome, a citizen of the United States,residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Dust-Pan Attachments, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the referencecharacters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figurestherein.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide the body part of adust-pan with a detachable handle which can be easily and quicklysecured to the pan by the user, thereby permitting a quantity ofpan-bodies to be closely packed together, when the handles are detached,for the purpose of convenience in shipping, and the handles afteri'ardreadily attached by any unskilledperson; and to provide a handle whichwill not only be convenient in using the pan, but will also afford aconvenient means for securing the pan upon a broom so that the broom andpan can be kept together while not in use, and the pan supported by thebroom when hung up in the usual manner.

The invention consists of means for conveniently securing a wire handleto a dustpan body in such a manner that the handle can be easily andquickly attached or detached; also of a pan-body having an open recessin its back, adapted to receive a broom handle, and a wire handle havingspringarms attached to the pan-body in such a manner that a broom may beinserted between the arms and the body of the pan, and the pan supportedthereon by the broom, as will hereinafter be more fully described andsubsequently pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan-view of the pan-body with the handledetached. Fig. 2 is a similar plan-view of the handle detached. Fig. 3is a vertical cross-section of a part of the pan-body, taken on thebroken line 33 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view of the handle shown inFig. 2, the rela tive position of the pan-body, when the handle isattached thereon, being shown by dotted lines, and the relative positionof a broom secured between the handle and panbody is also indicated bydotted lines. Fig. 5 is a plan-view of the dust-pan complete, showingthe relative position of a broom inserted between the handle andpan-body for the purpose of supporting the pan upon the broom.

The pan-body, 1, is made in the usual form of such bodies, except thatit is provided with an open recess, 2, in the upright wall, 3, at theback of the pan, adapted to receive the handle of a. broom, and providedwith the sockets, .lr, which are shown integral with the pan-body. Thesockets are formed by slitting the body of the pan transversely of thesockets at each end of the raised portion of the sockets, which areraised above the level of the pan-body, the neighboring portions of suchbody being depressed in line with the raised portions, as shown by theshaded lines 6 in Fig. 1, and in crosssection by the part marked 7.

The handle is preferably made of an integral piece of wire bent, asshown in Fig. 2, to form the grasp at 10, the yoke, 12, at the rear endof the handle, and the terminals, 13, adapted to be inserted in sockets4:, as seen in Fig. 5. The bends, 14, also serve as springs to engagethe broom, shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, and by dotted lines, 20, inFig. 4. The transverse bends, 16, serve to prevent the terminals 13 frompartaking of a rotatory movement in the pansocket-s, thereby making astiff and rigid connection between the wire handle and the It will beobserved that the handle-sockets, a, converge toward each other in thedirection of the back of the pan, and the terminals 13 of the handle arenormally parallel to each other when the handle is detached, as seen inFig. 2. Such an arrangement of the sockets and terminals makes itnecessary to spring the arms of the handles slightly to enter theterminals in the sockets, and when the handle attached to the pan-body,as seen in Fig. 5, the terminals necessarily con.- verge in the samemanner that the sockets do, thus causing a torsional force to be exerted upon the terminals to cause them to bind, with considerable force,upon the socket-walls, thereby not only increasing the rigidity of thewire handle, but also preventing accidental detachment of the handlefrom the pan-body while in use.

To secure the pan upon a broom it is only necessary to insert the end ofthe broomhandle from the front portion of the pan between the pan-bodyand the resilient bends, 14, to force the same rearwardly along the slot2 and above the bend 12, to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5and the dotted lines 20 in Fig. 4, the dotted line 21 indicating theposition 01 the pan-body. \Vhen in such position, the bends ll exertconsiderable pressure upon the broom, and the pan is securely held inposition upon the broom, and may be allowed to remain in this positionwhile the broom is in use, in which position the front portion of thepanbody will bear upon one side of the broom with sufiicient force tostiffen the head of the broom while in use, and materially aid in theeffective use of the broom. hen the broom and pan are thus secured, oneto the other, both articles can be hung upon a nail or other suitablesupport while out of use by means of the yoke, 12, of the handle, whichcan be easily and quickly adjusted to such support.

lVith this improved device, both the broom and the pan can be hung upupon a single nail or other support easily and quickly as the broomcould be placed in a corner of a room, with the head of the broomresting on the floor. It is well known that a broom is injured by beingallowed to stand in this manner upon the floor, and a string loop issometimes secured to the upper end of the handle, by which it can behung upon a nail, but the difiiculty of alfixing the loop to the nailgenerally prevents its use, and the broom is allowed to stand upon thefloor.

hat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Thecombination with the body-part of a dust-pan having oppositely disposedconverging sockets; of a detachable handle made of wire bent to form agrasp-portion having terminals normally parallel to each other, andadapted, respectively, to be inserted in such sockets and engage thesocketwalls under torsional pressure.

2. The combination with the body-part ot a dust-pan having oppositelydisposed sockets converging rearwardly of the pan; of a detachablehandle made of wire bent to form rearwardly projecting terminalsnormally parallel to each other and adapted, respectively, to beinserted in such sockets and engage the socket-walls under torsionalpressure.

3. The combination with the body-part ot a dust-pan having oppositelydisposed sockets midway of its trout and back: oi a. detachable handlemade of wire bent to form a grasp-portion adapted to overlie the rearhalf of the pan-body in an approximately horizontal plane, a supportingloop on the rear end of the grasp projecting rearwardly 01, and below,the upper edge of the back of the pan and attaching terminals on thefront end of the handle adapted tobe inserted in the oppositely disposedsockets and support the several parts of the handle in the positionsnamed.

4. The combination with the body-part ol a dust-pan having oppositelydisposed sockets therein: of a detachable wire handle bent to formyielding clamping arms, with a.t.- taching terminals adapted to beinserted in such sockets in such a manner that the clamping arms aresupported above the pan body in position to bear upon a broom insertedbetween the pan-body and such arms. 5. The combination with thebody-part ot a dust-pan having a recess in the upright 'all at the backof the pan, opening up \vardly and adapted to receive a broomhandle: ofa wire handle bent to form yielding clamping arms; and means :lorsecuring the wire handle to the pan in such a manner that the clampingarms of the handle are supported above the pan-body in position to bearupon a broom when inserted between the pan-body and such arms.

(5. The combination with the body-part of a dust-pan having a recess inthe upright wall at the back of the pan. opening upardly and adapted toreceive a broomhandle; of a wire handle bent. to form yielding clampingarms adapted to support a broom between such arms and the body-part ofthe pan, with the broom-lnnn'lle resting in the recess. the yoke whichconnects the arms projecting rearwardly of and beneath such recess; andmeans for positioning and securing the wire handle on the pan.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set. my hand this 31st day of Dec.ltlOS.

CHARLES TV. GR OB E. \Vitnesses G120. A. Mosimn, J. Dovsnaon.

